Epinephrine
2009-12-16, 10:05 AM
What kind of penalties do you apply to identifying a spell?
You must be able to see or hear the spell's somatic or verbal components, so a silent and stilled spell isn't identifiable, right? (though if a guy was pointing a glass rod at me and holding a bit of fur in the other hand, and a bolt of lightning struck me, I'd have a feeling I knew what he cast...)
How much of a penalty is there if one of the components is left out (just stilled, or just silent)?
Do you add penalties for spot/listen? Hearing the words to a spell in the midst of a battle? In a windstorm? Seeing the gestures of someone with partial concealment 40 feet away?
Just curious how much of a penalty people apply for various factors.
Also, other than the skill trick False Theurgy, is there any way to fool people into thinking you cast a different spell? Would you allow someone casting a silent/stilled spell to fake another spell, to fool people (Spellcraft check to get the right gestures/words if it's not a spell they typically cast, Bluff check to fool the other person?)?
Thanks,
You must be able to see or hear the spell's somatic or verbal components, so a silent and stilled spell isn't identifiable, right? (though if a guy was pointing a glass rod at me and holding a bit of fur in the other hand, and a bolt of lightning struck me, I'd have a feeling I knew what he cast...)
How much of a penalty is there if one of the components is left out (just stilled, or just silent)?
Do you add penalties for spot/listen? Hearing the words to a spell in the midst of a battle? In a windstorm? Seeing the gestures of someone with partial concealment 40 feet away?
Just curious how much of a penalty people apply for various factors.
Also, other than the skill trick False Theurgy, is there any way to fool people into thinking you cast a different spell? Would you allow someone casting a silent/stilled spell to fake another spell, to fool people (Spellcraft check to get the right gestures/words if it's not a spell they typically cast, Bluff check to fool the other person?)?
Thanks,